Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XII. Mr. Fox Tackles Old Man Tarrypin, sentence 11
You ain't bin lounjun 'roun' en suffer'n',' sez Brer Tarrypin, sezee.
Who acts: You, lounjun · What happens: not bin, say · To what, where: Brer · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XII. Mr. Fox Tackles Old Man Tarrypin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, lounjun), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 bin | nsubj |
| 2 | ai | ai | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 bin | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 bin | advmod |
| 4 | bin | bin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | lounjun | lounjun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sez | nsubj |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 roun | punct |
| 7 | roun | roun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lounjun | conj |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 roun | punct |
| 9 | en | en | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 suffer'n | compound |
| 10 | suffer'n | suffer'n | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 roun | appos |
| 11 | ', | ', | PUNCT | _ | 10 suffer'n | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 suffer'n | punct |
| 13 | sez | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 bin | ccomp |
| 14 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 sez | obj |
| 15 | Tarrypin | Tarrypin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Brer | flat |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sezee | punct |
| 17 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Brer | appos |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not bin | You | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | lounjun and roun | Brer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brer=Topic |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Project Gutenberg book 2306 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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